Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi met Wednesday on the sidelines of the 73rd U.N. General Assembly session in New York.
Netanyahu tweeted that the meeting focused on "regional developments," but did not elaborate.
Egypt has been instrumental is trying to broker a long-term cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, in an effort to prevent the recent security tensions on the volatile border from escalating into war.
Netanyahu and el-Sissi met in public for the first time in 2017 and Israeli media reported last month that they had held a secret summit in Egypt in May to discuss a truce in Gaza, which is under tight Israeli and Egyptian border restrictions.
Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel under a 1979 peace treaty and the two countries maintain close coordination on security, as well as energy ties.
El-Sissi, who addressed the General Assembly on Tuesday, urged the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, telling world leaders that the parameters that would ultimately shape the resolution to the regional conflict are based on the two-state solution.
He said that the failure of the United Nations to resolve this conflict was undermining its own vision.
Netanyahu is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Thursday evening.
Egyptian officials said that at the meeting, el-Sissi "stressed the importance of resuming the negotiations between the two sides, the Palestinians and the Israelis, to reach a just and a comprehensive solution based on a two-state solution and in accordance with the international treaties."
